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By Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock News Special Writer
At the first of a series of school budget work sessions held Tuesday night, discussions were dominated by the issue of pubic car use. Though not a financially-critical issue, the use of schoolassigned vehicles for car-pooling bus drivers and for special education student transportation has become the focus of community concern, according to Sperryville resident, Tbm Junk.
During the public comments portion of the session, Mr. Junk noted that the “the hint of impropriety (in public car use) is just enough to ‘wash’ the whole system”, and he advised that the school board “get rid of the cars” regardless of any cost savings. School board assessments are that this use of the automobiles saves the county some $10,000 per year, though Mr. Junk opined that “there was really no way to tell” what the savings were given the record-keeping. He did allow, however, that there may be some suitable exceptions to his proposed no-car use policy: their use for remote county areas like Chester Gap, for example, might be acceptable. School board facilities subcommittee members Dr. John Tole and Bryant Lee will wrestle with the car use policy at a subcommittee session.
In opening remarks, school Superintendent Dr. David Gangel introduced the first revisions to the draft 1999-2000 schools’ budget that was originally presented at the February School Board meeting. The nearly $9400 in increases to the draft budget expenditures were attributable, according to Dr. Gangel, to additional items that he felt reflected consensus reached at earlier meetings and to greater teacher’s salary increases mandated by the Virginia General
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